Sepher Leket Shemu’el [midrashic compilation]

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $300

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author

KATZ, SAMUEL FEIBISH

printer

Vendramin

Place

Venice

Publication

1694

Description

FIRST edition. Title within a decorative engraved border

references

Vinograd, Venice 1462

summary

The author was the city scribe in Lublin from where he fled pogroms to the safety of Vienna, whereupon in 1670 he was expelled from that city when Vienna banned Jews from its environs. Of related interest, in the present work, it is stated that the Messiah disappeared in 1670 and will reappear 40 years later. These words were in fact added to the book by followers of Shabbtai Tzvi, whose reign ceased in 1670

ff. 64. Damp-wrinkled. Modern boards. Folio

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